Re: Welcome Sumanth Pasupuleti as Apache Cassandra Committer

[Benjamin Lerer]

Congrats ! 😀😀😀

Le ven. 5 nov. 2021 à 20:20, Jordan West  a écrit :

> Congratulations Sumanth!
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:17 PM Stefan Miklosovic <
> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>
> > Welcome!
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 20:11, Joseph Lynch  wrote:
> > >
> > > Congratulations Sumanth!
> > >
> > > Well deserved!!
> > >
> > > -Joey
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:17 AM Oleksandr Petrov
> > >  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The PMC members are pleased to announce that Sumanth Pasupuleti has
> > > > recently accepted the invitation to become committer.
> > > >
> > > > Sumanth, thank you for all your contributions to the project over the
> > years.
> > > >
> > > > Congratulations and welcome!
> > > >
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[DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Benjamin Lerer]

Hi everybody,

Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
newcomers.
This proposal makes total sense to me.

What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?

Benjamin

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Brandon Williams]

I think that's a great idea.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
> to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> newcomers.
> This proposal makes total sense to me.
>
> What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
>
> Benjamin

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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Jeff Jirsa]

New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll
have the same problem).


On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
> to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> newcomers.
> This proposal makes total sense to me.
>
> What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
>
> Benjamin
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Matt Kennedy]

As an old timer trying to figure out for himself how to re-engage on the
community side after being focused on Astra for so long, I would welcome
the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems  focused on the
business of running the project.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jeff Jirsa  wrote:

> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll
> have the same problem).
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> newcomers
> > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> > newcomers.
> > This proposal makes total sense to me.
> >
> > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
>
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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Ekaterina Dimitrova]

Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
comfortable with channels?
They can also be per specific area or something like that?

I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
especially someone shy in very early career.

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa  wrote:

> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll
> have the same problem).
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> newcomers
> > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> > newcomers.
> > This proposal makes total sense to me.
> >
> > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Dinesh Joshi]

> On Nov 8, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Matt Kennedy  wrote:
> 
> welcome
> the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
> which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems  focused on 


Instead why don't we make cassandra-dev more approachable for new developers? 
If newcomers or boomerangs are afraid to ask stupid questions or feel 
intimidated, it is better to actually work on making cassandra-dev a friendlier 
channel and mailing list.

Being approachable and welcoming is not a function of a particular channel or 
mailing list. It is a function of the community. If the same 600 people (or a 
subset) are hanging out in a different channel, people will not have a 
different experience.

cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be accommodated.

Dinesh
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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Benjamin Lerer]

>
> New developers or new users?
>

It is for New contributors that are working on their first patches. The
idea is to create a safe space in which they could ask beginner questions
about the code.

Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:44, Matt Kennedy  a
écrit :

> As an old timer trying to figure out for himself how to re-engage on the
> community side after being focused on Astra for so long, I would welcome
> the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
> which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems  focused on the
> business of running the project.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jeff Jirsa  wrote:
>
> > New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> > channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and
> it'll
> > have the same problem).
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> > newcomers
> > > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over
> 600
> > > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> > > newcomers.
> > > This proposal makes total sense to me.
> > >
> > > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> > >
> > > Benjamin
> > >
> >
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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Benjamin Lerer]

> cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be
> accommodated.
>

I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev
channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough to
ask questions there?

Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
> comfortable with channels?
>

The main problem that we have with mentors currently is that it can be
difficult for newcomers to find people that can help them as mentors. We
would need to find a way to communicate that clearly. In my mind the new
channel could have been used also for that.

I do not know if a channel would help. The idea makes sense to me but I
would have loved to have some confirmation from people that are interested
in contributing or that are newcomers working on their first patches.

Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:55, Ekaterina Dimitrova  a
écrit :

> Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
> comfortable with channels?
> They can also be per specific area or something like that?
>
> I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
> especially someone shy in very early career.
>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa  wrote:
>
> > New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> > channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and
> it'll
> > have the same problem).
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> > newcomers
> > > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over
> 600
> > > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> > > newcomers.
> > > This proposal makes total sense to me.
> > >
> > > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> > >
> > > Benjamin
> > >
> >
>

Re: Welcome Sumanth Pasupuleti as Apache Cassandra Committer

[David Capwell]

Congrats!

> On Nov 8, 2021, at 4:00 AM, Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
> 
> Congrats ! 😀😀😀
> 
> Le ven. 5 nov. 2021 à 20:20, Jordan West  a écrit :
> 
>> Congratulations Sumanth!
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:17 PM Stefan Miklosovic <
>> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Welcome!
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 20:11, Joseph Lynch  wrote:
 
 Congratulations Sumanth!
 
 Well deserved!!
 
 -Joey
 
 On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:17 AM Oleksandr Petrov
  wrote:
> 
> The PMC members are pleased to announce that Sumanth Pasupuleti has
> recently accepted the invitation to become committer.
> 
> Sumanth, thank you for all your contributions to the project over the
>>> years.
> 
> Congratulations and welcome!
> 
> The Apache Cassandra PMC members
 
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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[David Capwell]

> Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there?

We get a few a quarter, guess the bigger question is “why do we not get more”?  
I don’t have issues following another channel, glad to help where I can.  
Another channel is low effort so I don’t have any issues trying to see if it 
helps.

> On Nov 8, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
> 
>> cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be
>> accommodated.
>> 
> 
> I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev
> channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough to
> ask questions there?
> 
> Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
>> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
>> comfortable with channels?
>> 
> 
> The main problem that we have with mentors currently is that it can be
> difficult for newcomers to find people that can help them as mentors. We
> would need to find a way to communicate that clearly. In my mind the new
> channel could have been used also for that.
> 
> I do not know if a channel would help. The idea makes sense to me but I
> would have loved to have some confirmation from people that are interested
> in contributing or that are newcomers working on their first patches.
> 
> Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:55, Ekaterina Dimitrova  a
> écrit :
> 
>> Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
>> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
>> comfortable with channels?
>> They can also be per specific area or something like that?
>> 
>> I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
>> especially someone shy in very early career.
>> 
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa  wrote:
>> 
>>> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
>>> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and
>> it'll
>>> have the same problem).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>>> 
 Hi everybody,
 
 Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
>>> newcomers
 to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over
>> 600
 followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
 newcomers.
 This proposal makes total sense to me.
 
 What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
 
 Benjamin
 
>>> 
>> 


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Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Joshua McKenzie]

Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be
prohibitively hard for a lot of people. I'm with Ekaterina; flagging
certain people in the channel as "available to mentor" so new contributors
would know who they could reach out to 1:1 to get situated and potentially
build some confidence would probably help.

That said, a new channel is low friction and a worthy experiment too.
I'm +1 to trying it out.

~Josh

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:02 PM David Capwell 
wrote:

> > Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there?
>
> We get a few a quarter, guess the bigger question is “why do we not get
> more”?  I don’t have issues following another channel, glad to help where I
> can.  Another channel is low effort so I don’t have any issues trying to
> see if it helps.
>
> > On Nov 8, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
> >
> >> cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be
> >> accommodated.
> >>
> >
> > I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev
> > channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough
> to
> > ask questions there?
> >
> > Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
> >> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
> >> comfortable with channels?
> >>
> >
> > The main problem that we have with mentors currently is that it can be
> > difficult for newcomers to find people that can help them as mentors. We
> > would need to find a way to communicate that clearly. In my mind the new
> > channel could have been used also for that.
> >
> > I do not know if a channel would help. The idea makes sense to me but I
> > would have loved to have some confirmation from people that are
> interested
> > in contributing or that are newcomers working on their first patches.
> >
> > Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:55, Ekaterina Dimitrova 
> a
> > écrit :
> >
> >> Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
> >> contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
> >> comfortable with channels?
> >> They can also be per specific area or something like that?
> >>
> >> I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
> >> especially someone shy in very early career.
> >>
> >> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa  wrote:
> >>
> >>> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> >>> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and
> >> it'll
> >>> have the same problem).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer 
> wrote:
> >>>
>  Hi everybody,
> 
>  Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> >>> newcomers
>  to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over
> >> 600
>  followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
>  newcomers.
>  This proposal makes total sense to me.
> 
>  What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> 
>  Benjamin
> 
> >>>
> >>
>
>
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Cassandra project biweekly status update 2021-11-08

[Joshua McKenzie]

First off - Congrats again to Sumanth Pasupuleti on becoming a committer on
the project! Well deserved; looking forward to working with you further.

It looks like ponymail got an upgrade; I didn't even realize that was
possible at this point. :) So caveat emptor: the links I put in here to
individual email threads are different than in the past but appear to be
working.

[New contributors getting started]
There's been some discussion about whether the #cassandra-dev channel with
600 people in it is the best place for new contributors to get involved and
publicly ask beginner questions or whether we should start a new channel
with a somewhat more limited scope. Please chime in on that dev mailing
list thread if you have an opinion:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/x8fx9b22nfll3gd40w4o971cyznckxrz

As a new contributor we recommend starting in one of two places: Failing
tests, or starter tickets we label "lhf" (low hanging fruit).
Query for failing tests:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=496&quickFilter=2252
Query for unassigned starter tickets:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2162&quickFilter=2160

We're up from 18 unassigned test failures to 22 in the past couple of
weeks. David Capwell, Berenguer Blasi, and Ekaterina Dimitrova (and
others!) have been doing some great work both surfacing failures as well as
fixing things - thank you!

For unassigned lhf, we're up from 10 to 11 on 4.0.2 (our next minor
release) and up from 13 to 14 on 4.1.0 (our next major release). Feel free
to self-select from that list, hit up this email thread or list if you want
some guidance on where to get involved, ping in the #cassandra-dev slack
channel on the-asf.slack.com server, or email or message me directly if you
want any help.

[Dev list discussions in the past 14 days]
https://lists.apache.org/list?dev@cassandra.apache.org:lte=2w:

We have an ongoing discussion about what it means to have a releasable
trunk and what steps, if any, it'd take to get there. Given the scale and
complexity of this project and its testing infrastructure, I'm curious to
hear what other experiences people have had with applying select CI and CD
principles to an ecosystem like this:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/kyyo5k3my2nx160mfgy0xkwo8xjh2qpv

As mentioned above, there's an ongoing discussion about how to make the
cassandra dev community more welcoming for newcomers:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/x8fx9b22nfll3gd40w4o971cyznckxrz

Andres surfaced CEP-3 for guardrails in which we all professed our
continued love for JMX (especially you Patrick). It'd be great to see more
operators chime in with their experience running clusters at scale and the
type of anti-patterns of usage that destabilize clusters since guardrails
would be a great way to expose protection against frequently occurring
patterns that scales poorly, among other things (tombstone heavy workloads
and thousands of tables anyone?)


CEP-18: Improving Modularity is going to be deprecated in favor of
module-specific refactors and optional implementations.

CEP-17: SSTable format API is evolving nicely:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/boqb5trkq1q38rmb50p4lsw95hyv053m

And these are just the highlights!

[Tickets in the past 14 days]
On the 4.0.2 front we've closed out 5 tickets compared to 9 in the prior 2
weeks. Looks like permissions, some timeouts during replica failure,
website updates, etc.

For 4.1.0 we've closed out 8 issues down from 14. Some stability in schema
pulls, commit log stability during testing, a slew of test fixes, and a new
feature to allow denying access to configured partition keys for reads,
writes, or range reads based on config (CQL or JMX).

[Tickets that need attention]
Needs Reviewer:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-16547&quickFilter=2259

I've tidied up / created a new quick filter that's tickets that are in
progress, blocked, or patch available but lacking a reviewer. This is
slightly opinionated of me in that it implies we should have reviewers for
things as we work on them rather than once they're further along being
written; I have a bias towards early inclusion of a 2nd pair of eyes and a
sounding board. If you see anything on this list that you're qualified to
review on or know the area of the code-base and have a few cycles, please
take a look and help out.

Workload wise, 14 tickets on 4.0.2 need reviewers and 34 on 4.1.0 by this
definition.

I'm going to refrain from linking to stalled tickets (30d inactive) for
now; the load of that is high (80 on 4.0.2, 422 on 4.1.0) so we probably
should approach this a little differently if we want to tidy up or prune
that backlog. It's as simple as a fixversion flag so doesn't really
indicate _too_ much to worry about.

[Test Failure Trendlines]
So first off, we have a good number of tests in this project. 43,000 or so
now. It's helpful to keep that in mind when we talk a

Re: Cassandra site broken links

[Melissa Logan]

Michael, thank you for bringing to attention. I'm reviewing with the folks
who created the site and I/they will reply with next steps.


On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 10:38 AM Michael Shuler 
wrote:

> I overwrote the result link - much better, no more 429s.
>
> https://12.am/tmp/cassandra.apache.org_muffet.log.txt
>
> - lots of page anchor problems
> - quite a few busted links
> - quite a few hosts that are gone
> - one link timeout
> - (a few "error" reports are each 200s, just headers)
>
> $ egrep '^\sid #' c*.log.txt |wc -l
> 1416
> $ egrep '^\s4' c*.log.txt |wc -l
> 55
> $ egrep '^\slookup' c*.log.txt |wc -l
> 20
> $ egrep '^\stimeout' c*.log.txt |wc -l
> 1
>
> Warm regards,
> Michael
>
> On 11/6/21 11:59 AM, Michael Shuler wrote:
> > FYI - I'm going to try to slow down the checks, since I just noticed a
> > bunch of the 4xx errors are "HTTP 429 Too Many Requests"
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michael
> >
> > On 11/6/21 11:52 AM, Michael Shuler wrote:
> >> (Sending to dev@ which seems a better place to discuss; updated
> >> subject. Thanks OP!)
> >>
> >> I ran a couple link checking tools on the site and there are lots more
> >> problems than the couple noted. This seems like a good task for a
> >> non-dev to make a substantial project impact. Muffet [0] seemed the
> >> quickest way to get some decent output. I grabbed the v2.4.4 binary
> >> release [1]; tar xzvf .., and:
> >>
> >> $ ./muffet https://cassandra.apache.org/ \
> >>   | tee -a cassandra.apache.org_muffet.log.txt
> >>
> >> result (2950 lines):
> >> https://12.am/tmp/cassandra.apache.org_muffet.log.txt
> >>
> >> $ egrep '^\s4' cassandra.apache.org_muffet.log.txt \
> >>   | wc -l
> >> 841
> >> $ egrep '^\sid #' cassandra.apache.org_muffet.log.txt \
> >>   | wc -l
> >> 1401
> >>
> >> [0] https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet
> >> [1] https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet/releases
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On 11/5/21 4:09 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
> >>> see below:
> >>>
> >>> -- Forwarded message -
> >>> From: *Hubert Kulas*  >>> >
> >>> Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 1:29 PM
> >>> Subject: Not working links
> >>> To: mailto:webmas...@apache.org>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am writing my thesis about big data and I was doing some research
> >>> about real-world use cases of Cassandra. While doing that I found
> >>> that after clicking "read more" under 'Coursera'  leads us to
> >>> DataStax website where we are greeted with "You do not have access to
> >>> view this page" message. To reproduce it just go to
> >>> https://cassandra.apache.org/_/case-studies.html
> >>>  and then find
> >>> Coursera and click "read more".  Then after trying to find a way to
> >>> contact you guys about the problem I encountered another problem on
> >>> this part of the website
> >>> https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/3.11.5/contactus.html
> >>> 
> >>> After clicking the icon leads us to
> >>> https://cassandra.apache.org/feed.xml
> >>>  which gives us the 404 Not
> >>> Found message.
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Re: Cassandra project biweekly status update 2021-11-08

[Patrick McFadin]

Since I have been re-playing Ghost of Tsushima, I felt a Haiku would be
appropriate.

my cluster is failing
jConsole to the rescue
now I am failing





On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:46 PM Joshua McKenzie 
wrote:

> First off - Congrats again to Sumanth Pasupuleti on becoming a committer on
> the project! Well deserved; looking forward to working with you further.
>
> It looks like ponymail got an upgrade; I didn't even realize that was
> possible at this point. :) So caveat emptor: the links I put in here to
> individual email threads are different than in the past but appear to be
> working.
>
> [New contributors getting started]
> There's been some discussion about whether the #cassandra-dev channel with
> 600 people in it is the best place for new contributors to get involved and
> publicly ask beginner questions or whether we should start a new channel
> with a somewhat more limited scope. Please chime in on that dev mailing
> list thread if you have an opinion:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/x8fx9b22nfll3gd40w4o971cyznckxrz
>
> As a new contributor we recommend starting in one of two places: Failing
> tests, or starter tickets we label "lhf" (low hanging fruit).
> Query for failing tests:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=496&quickFilter=2252
> Query for unassigned starter tickets:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2162&quickFilter=2160
>
> We're up from 18 unassigned test failures to 22 in the past couple of
> weeks. David Capwell, Berenguer Blasi, and Ekaterina Dimitrova (and
> others!) have been doing some great work both surfacing failures as well as
> fixing things - thank you!
>
> For unassigned lhf, we're up from 10 to 11 on 4.0.2 (our next minor
> release) and up from 13 to 14 on 4.1.0 (our next major release). Feel free
> to self-select from that list, hit up this email thread or list if you want
> some guidance on where to get involved, ping in the #cassandra-dev slack
> channel on the-asf.slack.com server, or email or message me directly if
> you
> want any help.
>
> [Dev list discussions in the past 14 days]
> https://lists.apache.org/list?dev@cassandra.apache.org:lte=2w:
>
> We have an ongoing discussion about what it means to have a releasable
> trunk and what steps, if any, it'd take to get there. Given the scale and
> complexity of this project and its testing infrastructure, I'm curious to
> hear what other experiences people have had with applying select CI and CD
> principles to an ecosystem like this:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/kyyo5k3my2nx160mfgy0xkwo8xjh2qpv
>
> As mentioned above, there's an ongoing discussion about how to make the
> cassandra dev community more welcoming for newcomers:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/x8fx9b22nfll3gd40w4o971cyznckxrz
>
> Andres surfaced CEP-3 for guardrails in which we all professed our
> continued love for JMX (especially you Patrick). It'd be great to see more
> operators chime in with their experience running clusters at scale and the
> type of anti-patterns of usage that destabilize clusters since guardrails
> would be a great way to expose protection against frequently occurring
> patterns that scales poorly, among other things (tombstone heavy workloads
> and thousands of tables anyone?)
>
>
> CEP-18: Improving Modularity is going to be deprecated in favor of
> module-specific refactors and optional implementations.
>
> CEP-17: SSTable format API is evolving nicely:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/boqb5trkq1q38rmb50p4lsw95hyv053m
>
> And these are just the highlights!
>
> [Tickets in the past 14 days]
> On the 4.0.2 front we've closed out 5 tickets compared to 9 in the prior 2
> weeks. Looks like permissions, some timeouts during replica failure,
> website updates, etc.
>
> For 4.1.0 we've closed out 8 issues down from 14. Some stability in schema
> pulls, commit log stability during testing, a slew of test fixes, and a new
> feature to allow denying access to configured partition keys for reads,
> writes, or range reads based on config (CQL or JMX).
>
> [Tickets that need attention]
> Needs Reviewer:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-16547&quickFilter=2259
>
> I've tidied up / created a new quick filter that's tickets that are in
> progress, blocked, or patch available but lacking a reviewer. This is
> slightly opinionated of me in that it implies we should have reviewers for
> things as we work on them rather than once they're further along being
> written; I have a bias towards early inclusion of a 2nd pair of eyes and a
> sounding board. If you see anything on this list that you're qualified to
> review on or know the area of the code-base and have a few cycles, please
> take a look and help out.
>
> Workload wise, 14 tickets on 4.0.2 need reviewers and 34 on 4.1.0 by this
> definition.
>
> I'm going to refrain from linking to stalled tickets (30d inactive) for
> now; the load of t

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Berenguer Blasi]

+1 to a new channel, imo it will give that safe space to newcomers. Also
happy to be flagged as a mentor, helper, contact point or whatever to
the newcomers.

On 8/11/21 21:10, Joshua McKenzie wrote:
> Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be
> prohibitively hard for a lot of people. I'm with Ekaterina; flagging
> certain people in the channel as "available to mentor" so new contributors
> would know who they could reach out to 1:1 to get situated and potentially
> build some confidence would probably help.
>
> That said, a new channel is low friction and a worthy experiment too.
> I'm +1 to trying it out.
>
> ~Josh
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:02 PM David Capwell 
> wrote:
>
>>> Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there?
>> We get a few a quarter, guess the bigger question is “why do we not get
>> more”?  I don’t have issues following another channel, glad to help where I
>> can.  Another channel is low effort so I don’t have any issues trying to
>> see if it helps.
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>>>
 cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be
 accommodated.

>>> I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev
>>> channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough
>> to
>>> ask questions there?
>>>
>>> Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
 contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
 comfortable with channels?

>>> The main problem that we have with mentors currently is that it can be
>>> difficult for newcomers to find people that can help them as mentors. We
>>> would need to find a way to communicate that clearly. In my mind the new
>>> channel could have been used also for that.
>>>
>>> I do not know if a channel would help. The idea makes sense to me but I
>>> would have loved to have some confirmation from people that are
>> interested
>>> in contributing or that are newcomers working on their first patches.
>>>
>>> Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:55, Ekaterina Dimitrova 
>> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
 Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
 contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
 comfortable with channels?
 They can also be per specific area or something like that?

 I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
 especially someone shy in very early career.

 On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa  wrote:

> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and
 it'll
> have the same problem).
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer 
>> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> newcomers
>> to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over
 600
>> followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
>> newcomers.
>> This proposal makes total sense to me.
>>
>> What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>>
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